In No Logo, Naomi Klein grumbles that the replacement of free-market fundamentalists like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s with social democrats like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton in the 1990s made no real difference: "What good was an open and accountable Parliament or Congress if opaque corporations were setting so much of the global political agenda in the back rooms?"

And I've got a great deal of faith in his ability to recognize that and ability to go out and execute it. "hardly sounds like an owner or a head coach or a general manager that are panicking or caving in to any" grumbles "to me all you have to do is look at the saints